Thursday, October 7, 2010

Social Hour with a two-year-old

Is it sad that I love having a social schedule for my two-year-old son? Is it sad that I look forward to Thursdays because it's storytime days, Fridays because we sometimes have playdates and the occasional Mondays when we get all the boy cousins together? I love having a toddler whose schedule runs around playing with friends and song time at church rather then breast milk feedings and two naps! Trust me, I still keep a scheduled single nap, but I love this new social age! Toddlers are exhausting to say the least. He loves his friendss but the next thing you know he's "tackling" them and not understanding why they are bawling. But I totally look foward to the "playdate email" that let's me know when and where playgoup is that week... my two year old can name all of his friends (which he does almost every night in his nighttime prayers) and he loves to talk about what they do together... lately his buddy and he have started an annoying mealtime tradition of seeing who can spill the most or drop their cup the loudest; extremely annoying to me but those two get laughing so hard sometimes I have to surpress my own giggle. God made us to build relationships with one another. My two year old needs friends and relationships... I just can't believe how much I enjoy his social calendar... sadly, I count down the minutes until storytime starts... but I m also learning to enjoy every last minute in this stage because I know it won't last but a few more months... I'm just hoping the next stage doesn't involve introvert behaviors or else I might have to fill up our calendar with adult social events and I'm not so good at those:)